Training Log Archive: Yukon King

off to Sunshine coast for two days to stay at B&B w/ three irish wolfhounds in residence. Compare stature of shiba inu & wolfhound...hmmmm, G-dog is gonna love this! plus its her 11 mo birthday !
Feet a bit sore. duh.

C • B&B 2

from the B&B down to the Gumboot for cookies, & the seashore for the sun & waves. And back again, slowly.
Plus a walk in Gibsons along the pretty waterfront after lunch.

try for the bank again today...also gonna make a mennonite-style platz ("Flat"? its a cake) w/ the elephant heart plums that came last night which are gooushy & need to be done away with. Also considering how to do a nod in the direction of cassoulet but without all the beans since D would pass out when he saw them... probably more like a rissotto w/ the various veg/meats embedded, a scatter of luscious soft white beans as the "nod", & cook it like a paella in the oven? and brown rice instead of white, hmm...

urk, a bit too much but soo-o-oo worth it! bank trip went good as did celebratory stop at Chapters for a present for D, ooooh! total 2.4 km, decided to eat a tylenol & elevate afterwards, plus rest in car to Sunshine cost tomorrow will be good.
Note: that Platz thing is NOT O-food, it is... farmer food, fuel for farmers, & a way to get rid of eggs & milk & butter. Most of the time I have to pretend recipes like that dont exist. Yum. (Plums disturbing, they look like they are made out of venison, dont taste like it tho)
Then V. gentle 0.8km meander from park bench to park bench w/ pup.

evening walk w/ G & D as well...

yummy crisp & rainy overcast day, tried to go to Metrotown but train was down, so back home, 0.8 km...different route up the creek (heheheh) to goggle at new mews of townhouses not quite done, down thru park on other side of creek & home. G messed around in a brooklet, dug in a sandbar, didnt get quite so filthy as yesterday when she got up to her eyebrows in a mudflow, haha, what a cr*ppy parent I'd be! Off to Alfie's tonight for dinner.

C • little bit of mud 4

wow, another great day w/ bright, cool sunshine. Both D & I noticed the cranberry harvest looks paler this year, more orangey pink, and it seems early to me - going for the white juice market? harvesting in desperation cuz of funky weather this year?
Last night we went vegetarian gourmet w/ cute veggie pizzas, a salad, a side of vegetable crudites, &... uh, some veg steamed w/ olive oil. (9 veggies in one meal.) Tonight I am going out w/ The Girls of Revenue Canada to eat italian, & am leaving coq au vin w/ two simply massive organic chicken legs for D to eat. Meat, just for a change.

C • today i had oatmeal w/ nuts... 4

over to the park, then over to the creek & back to investigate the dirt piles where they are planting new trees over by Belvedere. Also a quick trip to the corner grocery to top up our fruit etc. Time for tea & Jurgen Goethe's Disc Drive, & folding laundry in the sun.

exploratory re-introduction, just trying all the movements, no holding or pushing it, no rep's, felt good, felt quiet.

still sub-G.
thinking about becoming a bit more productive in my days now we are heading back into being at home on a more regular basis. Music, language, & history lessons as well as yoga, have all been on hold, & I rather miss them. Hopefully I can get back into it.

over to the woods for a change of pace, up thru train station, & back around via Poo Hill, a trip down memory lane, even to the dodging like weasels thru the formal garden where dogs aren't allowed...

indian summer started today, bright & cool, cranberry harvests going on down in the valley. Walked over to the park and back around the blackberry route by the train tracks - wow ! this bicyclist guy whizzed past us just about breaking the sound barrier - kinda sonic boom thing, & then G & I are gasping for breath in the aftermath. Kinda how I imagine the MO triplets, just an impression of hi-tech goggles & no body-fat to speak of... also met a chocolate poodle named Butch. Butch is 13 weeks old & is the exact size of one of Gypsy's fluffy toys, and honestly G is NOT a Really Big Dog, she doesnt actually even come up to my knee so well her toys are not big either.
off on the train downtown for shoeshopping, more walking, transfusion, & dinner date, wheeee!

as predicted more walking downtown, felt pretty good !

raining and cool today, perfect day to go to the wedding show at the conference center downtown. D is gonna do the Terry Fox 10K at Burnaby Central Park, so he will be nice and cool.
I walked a really long way at the wedding show but can't be bothered to think of a way to realistically quantify it. feet hurt. it was big fun! my favorite was a clear table with all white filmy or totally clear dishes and linens lit from beneath, vey pretty. But the people would have that lit-from-below devil look, plus the food would be these alarming opaque lumpy outlines on the plates. Maybe you just look at the tables, you dont actually sit at them or eat at them...

upon thought, a good solid foot-hurtin' day is worth at least 2 km...